... international intrigue, crime and ROMANCE OF CASABLANCA. In I rich Morocco, 1941 Ugarte (PETER LORRE) is arrested on a charge of m rdering two German couriers and shot when trying to escape. Rick, the gaming-house proprietor, makes no effort to save him. Bribery and black market Ferrari (SYDNEY GREENSTREET) makes a fantastically high offer for the passports which Ugarte entrusted to Rick ...

... fri FT* FT* W 4 w OODBYE to that old bugbear of the placket skirt an ugly, shape-destroying hip bulge. Literally a placket without an opening, the new Gor-ray ZWOW Fastening has no buttons or metal fastenings on the hip to stand out, cause gaping, or pull the material. Smart women everywhere welcome this further addition to the high quality of all Gor-ray Skirts. Good fashion houses ...

... . MRS. BEN BRYANT is the wife of Commander Ben Bryant D.S.C., R.N. commander of submarine 44 P211, whose activities in the Mediterranean have been working havoc ivith Axis shipping since his arrival there. His 44 bag totalled in 44 Mare Nostrum twenty-three up to last week. Bryant, xcho won the D.S.C. in Norway nearly three years ago, is 6 ft. 3 ins. in height, and used to wear a beard, but ...

... . I The CHIEF YEOMAN OF SIGNALS demonstrating to an eager audience of Wrens, how a signal is made with flags. A class of Wrens practising GENERAL SIGNALLING on the flat roof known as the Flag Deck A GENERAL PRACTICE OF SEMAPHORES on the Flag Deck. The instructor (background, right) walks round assisting and correcting. ■PRACTISING RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING IN PAIRS Wrens under instruction on ...

... GUNNER TOY- MAKERS OF MALTA. THE w; oy shortage has affected most British nurseries, but .Malta, the George Cross Island in the Mediter ranean, th particular trouble has been ameliorated by the patience a), t ingenuity of the gunners. They have whiled away the v. g waiting hours on gun sites by making toys out of sue materials as could be mustered old bully-beef tins, wood rom ammunition cases ...

... . WREN JOY HIND MARSH is here receiving instruction in drumming from P.C. FRED LINDSAY, drummer in a police band so that she may head the ceremonial Wren parades, in correct style. LADY DAVSON, O.B.E., Chairman, Ladies Committee of War Services West India CoJ opened a Forces Y.W.C.A. Club at Camberley, presented by Barbados. CONTROLLfll CARLISLE, A.T.S., is on the left. Left The engage ment of ...

... -ORINA IN A MULTI-STAR FILM. Paramount' s 44 Star-Spangled Rhythm staggers the mind tcith the largest battalion of stars ever gathered together on one reel. VERA ZORINA is the star leader of the ballet and 44 Black Magic v one of her musical numbers. The extravaganza plot centres round the Paramount Studios and each star plays a real-life role. Here are a fete names from the stellar list ...

... . TT OLLYWOOD'S STAGE DOOR CAN- TEEN, run on the lines of the successful Stage Door Canteen of the American Theatre Wing in New York, proved a smash-hit as soon as it was opened. Bette Davis is the president, and the staff comes from every rank in the movie colony, from studio hands to producers, and includes hundreds of celebrated actors and actresses. The canteen's capacity is 600 uniformed ...

... . r\NCE UPON A HONEY- V-7 MOON, new R.K.O. Radio picture, is due at the Odeon on February 26. It 's an international spy thriller, with Ginger as the golden- haired Baroness, formerly U.S.A. dancer Katie O'Hara. She discovers the Baron to be a Nazi agent and, after many narrow shaves, escapes with newspaper man Pat O'Toole, but returns to the Baron to do some contrespionage work. This ...

... - GENERAL EISENHOWER, for beins one of the finest men the Premier has cvei* met. An up-to-date portrait of GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. A treasured family album snapshot shows DWIGHT D. EISi HOWER lower-right at the age of two. With him areih, of his brothers ARTHUR (lop-left), EDGAR top-right andR 2ND LIEUT. EISENHOWER married MISS ...

... . This decorative study of MISS PAT LEONARD shoics her in a two-piece costume of crepe and fringe, wearing some massive modernistic jewellery. She plays Jean Blanchard in u Let 's Face It, George Black's successful shotv at the London Hippodrome, with Bobby Howes, Joyce Barbour and Pat Kirkwood in the leading roles. PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED DANIELS. ...

... Lap van Lev n (RALPH RICHARDSON) is a ■)uJr/iman ord d by the Nazis to manage his own ipyard for Germany. Bastiaan Peters (CHARLES VICTOR right) hounded by the Gestapo for acts of sabotage, breaks into van Ley den's house to shoot him believing him to be a quisling. Helene van Leyden (GOOGIE WITHERS) is torn between her loyalty to her husband and the fear that he may have become a quisling. ...